Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pretend to sell yourself to a higher bidder , no doubt . ’ |
| 2 | It is hoped that readers will feel able to draw on the ideas presented to develop the work further and to apply it to a wider range of contexts . |
| 3 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 4 | They reckon they 've had enough and theywant to leave it to the younger ones.0 |
| 5 | but then again I 'd rather just let them get on with it I 'm not trying to convert you to the better way of doing things , cos obviously I do n't know a whether there 's |
| 6 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 7 | The conclusion was that it would be better to destroy the larger animals humanely than to attempt to move them to a safer place . |
| 8 | But it needs either deep inside knowledge , or real writing skills to take it to a higher plane . |
| 9 | However , if this is north facing it may make more sense to move it to a sunnier position . |
| 10 | This does not require any bridging inferences to link it to the earlier sentence . |
| 11 | So we are trying to introduce him to the larger world . |
| 12 | They are driven to cunning in order to buy the materials they need for their work … they are vain , envious and antagonistic to writers ‘ who are really their best friends , who control the public and try to bring it to a greater state of culture which will offer the artists great subject for their work … |
| 13 | Charles had recently met a number of community cities , made such perfect sense and was so inspirational that he felt compelled to bring it to a wider audience . |
| 14 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |